{"id":4992,"date":"2018-03-02T21:35:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2018-03-02T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:35:54","slug":"reproductive-justices-also-for-refugee-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/gesundheit\/reproductive-justices-also-for-refugee-women\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReproductive Justices\u201d – also for Refugee Women!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Newsletter #13<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some\nmembers of our group had the possibility to participate in a workshop on\n\u201cReproductive Justice\u201d with professor Anne Hendrixon from the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept\nof \u201cReproductive Justice was developed in the Black feminist movement in the\nUS. While the discussions on the topic in German leftist circles mainly focus\non the right to abort, reproductive justice is about the right to have children\nor not as well as asking for the conditions for raising children and how these\nconditions influence people\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the rising right in Germany today explicitly advocates for population policy \u2013 either by proposing to fight migration through birth control in the Global South or by calling on women of German origin to have more children. In many ways, this agenda can connect to national and global policies that are already in place and against which hardly any counter-strategies exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Development programs in the Global South focus on decreasing birth rates, in particular in rural areas and amongst social disadvantaged groups. New long-lasting contraceptive methods \u2013 such as hormonal implants \u2013 are employed to this end in the context of public private partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Germany, the declared goal of family policy is to help fulfill people\u2019s desire for children. But this is not aimed at everybody: People with children who do not conform to the norm image of the German middle class family receive less state support or are discriminated against: Recipients of social welfare (\u201cHartz-IV\u201d) do not receive parents\u2018 money (\u201cElterngeld\u201d), family reunions are not granted, or children without a residence permit status do not receive a place in day-care. The situation is particularly serious for refugee women*. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our last newsletter we have already pointed out the problems of hormonal implants with expiry date which women* purchase to avoid unwanted pregnancies from being raped on their dangerous routes to Europe. In the isolated lagers in Germany, there is almost no accessible information for refugee women* on pregnancy and pregnancy termination. Thus, they are dependent on arbitrary advice given by doctors, social workers and (mainly) Christian counselling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the conditions they find in the refugee camps in Germany many women* opt against having children under these circumstances. In case they do get pregnant they are accused of \u201ctrying to get a residence permit by fraud\u201d.  Having\nendured pregnancy and birth the situation is not getting better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How after delivery is one expected to share a room on the fourth floor with three others while toilets and showers are located in the basement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women*\nreport on leaving their new-born babies alone behind in order to prepare food\nin the dirty shared kitchens 50 meters away from their rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately,\nas refugee women* and friends we experience a lot of solidarity among each\nother enabling those who want children to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in the\nend new life always creates new hope \u2013 an act of rebellion against an inhuman\nsystem which denies our dignity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsletter #13 Einige aus unserer Gruppe hatten die M\u00f6glichkeit an einem Workshop zum Thema \u201cReproductive Justice\u201d mit Professorin Anne Hendrixen aus den USA teilzunehmen. Das Konzept der \u201cReproduktiven Gerechtigkeit\u201d kommt aus der Schwarzen Frauenbewegung in den USA. W\u00e4hrend  sich in linken deutschen Kreisen bei dem Thema oft  alles nur um das Recht auf Abtreibung dreht, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gesundheit"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}